problem is I cannot find any info on this player anywhere online and this article is dated Jan 6th 2008. So after 11 months I'm wondering if this is out in Korea yet. This is pretty urgent because I want to get it asap so it will ship to me before the 24th.

Hmm nice player, but it seems that it hasn't been released (yet?).
The most similar player is the E50, but the "a player" is definitely different than any iriver player on the market today (in design anyway).